Stressed to the Max

I want to start by saying to Mary that your visit was way to short!!!! I had a blast on Wed. evening, Carol and I felt like it was old times. We both miss you tons!

On Thursday I finally went to after hours at the drs. office. After waiting over an hour in the waiting room I was finally called into a room where I waited another 15 minutes. Thankfully there was a really nice dr. on call and I got all the meds that I needed. I ended up with bronchitis, a sinus infection and an ear infection...not to mention an increase in my asthma reactions. I walked out with four prescriptions and I am starting to feel somewhat better. All in all the whole appointment and med pick-up took 3 hours!

Yesterday I took Patrick and Tyler to the dr. for their physicals and found out that they both have bronchitis! We are a sick bunch!

Today we are having Ryan's belated birthday party. It is a sleepover with 6 boys attending. They were supposed to sleep in our tent and be outside; but, wouldn't you know it...severe storms are on the way today and tonight! What am I going to do with a total of 10 boys and 1 toddler in a house with NO basement?! Ok, I have decided for sure bowling and maybe laser tag are in the forseeable future!

On top of that next Sat. is Ben's belated birthday party. Same scenario as Ryan's...six boys invited. I am praying that it will be much nicer next Sat. as I believe 7 future 7th graders are much more of a problem cooped in the house than 7 future 4th graders are! Smells and everthing....YEW! I won't worry about this weekend too much yet.

Last night I agreed to make dinner for my friend, Joy, who had her 4th daughter. What do you make for Vegan's? I spent quite a lot of time on-line looking up recipes. There were things I had never heard of in the ingredients so I decided to do something that I had never done! I ordered a veggies pizza and a cheese pizza, brought over a mixed green salad with dressing (organic of course), a fruit salad and "pre-made" cookies and popsicles! I am still feeling quilty about not making anything myself...but I am sure that I will survive...esp. since they were very happy with everything!

I am awake trying to get going this morning and get a jump-start on the day...not feeling like that is going to happen. Once 3pm rolls around and the boys have arrived I am sure that I will regret it!

I better get going, I hope you all have a great day and please pray for my sanity!